October 1702

Oct. 6.Cockpit, Treasury Chambers.

No entry of attendance.

Mr. Boyle [Chancellor of the Exchequer] having received my
Lord Treasurer's commands by letter from Newmarket dated the
3rd inst. for the issue of a sum of money to Walter Whitfeild for the
service of the Marines, it is ordered (Mr. Whitfeild being present)
that out of the loans on the Duties on Malt now in the Exchequer
2400l. be issued to the Navy Treasurer to be paid over in a gross
sum to said Whitfeild on account of subsistence to the Regiments
of Mordaunt, Holt and Saunderson and 7 Companies of Col. Villiers.

Ordered also by the Chancellor of the Exchequer that the letter
signed by Mr. Lowndes the 2nd. inst. for making the following issues
be immediately sent to the Exchequer viz.:

£

s.

d.

to the Earl of Ranelagh to complete a month's
pay to the foreigners and a month's subsistence to the Subject Forces [British
Forces] in Holland; for both to the 20th
Oct. 1702

28012

16

10½

[to ditto] for 2 weeks' subsistence to the Forces
in England, including Lord Lucas's Regiment, viz. to the 21st inst.

4128

15

6

[to ditto] for recruits for the Regiments of
Oxford, Lloyd and Essex

1800

£33941

12

4½

of the above total 33,008l. 4s. 11½d. is to be
issued out of Civil List money in full of the
Queen's donation and the balance of 933l.
7s. 5d. is to be issued out of loans on Malt.

Treasury Minute Book XIII, p. 249.

Oct. 14.

Present: Lord Treasurer; Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Lord Halifax comes in.

Ordered that henceforth due care be taken by the proper officers
in the Exchequer to examine the vouchers for the annuities (and
the cash too) as hath been done for the vouchers and cash belonging
to the other payments there. And the Lord Treasurer leaves it to
my Lord Halifax to employ at present such hands as may be necessary
to direct the orders for the annuities for the quarter now paying and
to examine the same in order to know how far the annuities are
paid and what arrears are due thereon.

Write to the Navy Commissioners and Victualling Commissioners
to be here in the afternoon with papers of what money is necessary
to be supplied to their officers at present. Ibid., p. 250.

eodem die, afternoon.

Present: ut supra.

Order for 1500l. to be issued for Secret Service.

The matter upon the complaint of Mr. Tutchin against Mr. Castleton [is ordered] to be heard this day week. Give notice to all parties
and write the Attorney and Solicitor General to attend about the
same.

Mr. Delarose [is ordered] to be heard on Tuesday afternoon.
Direct the Excise Commissioners to attend then: also the Customs
Commissioners.

The Victuallers [Commissioners] are called in [and the following
issues to them are ordered]

50,000l. more on tallies in the hands of the Navy Treasurer is
to be borrowed and applied to the course of the Victualling.

15,000l. more [to be similarly borrowed] on the same, for bills
of exchange and Contingencies relating to the Victualling.

The Navy Commissioners are called in.

Memorandum: to speak to Mr. Whitfield to pay his proportion
of the Exchequer fees for the money he receives from the Treasurer
of the Navy.

See what [unexpired] term [there still] is in the [grant of the]
Alnage Duty and what rent is received thereon.

Write to the Auditors of the revenue to transmit schedules of
all the Queen's lands, rents and other revenues of the Crown, [throughout England and also in the] Principality of Wales and Duchy of
Cornwall, distinguishing all the demisable lands and other branches
thereof as particularly as may be, and all the rents resolute, pensions
and other charges issuing out of the same.

[Write] to the Commissioners of Prizes to attend [my Lord
Treasurer] on Friday morning.

Make an account of what is due to the Queen's servants payable
at the Exchequer to Michaelmas last.

[Write] to Mr. Whitfield to be here on Friday morning.

[Write] to the gentlemen of the Bank to be here on Friday
afternoon. Ibid., pp. 250–1.

Oct. 16.

Present: ut supra.

My Lord Treasurer acquaints Mr. Warr that he doth not see any
cause of detaining Mr. Swift or Mr. Wood any longer.

The Commissioners of Prizes are called in. Their papers are read
and answered.

Ordered that the Comptroller of the Prizes do monthly transmit
to this [Treasury] Office a certificate of the produce of the prizes
and how the said produce is paid or applied; with the remains
thereof.

Ordered that the [said] Commissioners do consider the particulars
of the charge [of salaries and incidents] relating to the prizes and
represent to my Lord Treasurer what part thereof if any is
unnecessary and may best be spared.

[Write] to Mr. Brewer and Mr. Painter to be here on Monday
afternoon.

My Lord directs Mr. Lowndes to pay out of Secret Service money
a list of pensions which he received from the Queen amounting to
970l. per annum pursuant to the Queen's pleasure therein: and a
quarter [thereon is ordered to be paid] presently: viz. as follows

per an.

£

Mr. Theodore Bellasis

150

Mrs. Katherine Hildesley

50

Mrs. Mary Shelley

20

Mrs. Elizabeth Olivier

40

Elizabeth Tottersall

20

Elizabeth Harris

20

Elizabeth Bernard

10

John Edmonds

20

Henry Quinn

40

Katherine Coay

10

Teresa Wroughton

6

Richard Drewry

20

Monsieur Bernard de Vignau

80

Samuel Pack

10

Mary Simans

20

Katherine Buck

15

Frances Otway

10

Sarah Marshall

15

Mrs. Mary Saintloe

10

John Calvert

30

Mary Watkins

10

Mrs. Elizabeth Atkinson

70

Mrs. Katherine Devenish

70

Mrs. Dorothy Wanley

70

Henry Walter

40

Hester Dawson

30

Ellinor Clausen

8

Thomas Andrews

20

Thomas Green

9

Sarah Wright

20

Mary Austen

8

John Gerrard

19

£970

Mr. Whitfield is called in. He presents a state of the account for
six Marine Regiments. Treasury Minute Book XIII, p. 252.

Oct. 16.afternoon.

Present: Lord Godolphin.

Recommend Mr. Martin to the place void in the Stamp Office.

The Commissioners of Salt Duties [are called in].

[Write] to the Earl of Ranelagh to be here on Tuesday morning
at nine.

The gentlemen of the Bank are called in. It is proposed to them
to lend 165,000l. more on the tallies in Sir Thomas Littleton's hands
at 5 per cent. They will lay it before the Court of Directors.

The deficiency [due and unpaid] to the Bank due on the 1st June
1701 is to be paid out of other money pursuant to the clauses in their
Act.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer comes in.

Mr. Appreece says his father's proportion of Mason's debt shall
be paid in before the last day of Michaelmas term. Ibid., p. 253.

Oct 19,Monday morning.

Present: Lord Treasurer; Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Lord Halifax comes in: desires letters to be written to the
Customs, Excise and Post Office for [them to prepare] an account of
interest paid [by or] in those respective Offices since the 5th November
1688, distinguishing how much in each year.

The Auditors of Imprests are to attend on Wednesday morning
at nine.

Mr. Henning to be here on Wednesday morning.

Memorandum: to speak to Mr. Culliford in the afternoon about
his security given for Mr. Robert Squibb.

Mr. Borret to attend the Exchequer Court and to see that orders
and rules of [the said] Court so far as relates to the revenue be fully
complied with.

Speak with the Customs Commissioners about the security which
the Lord Chief Baron says the patent officers of the Customs ought
to give in the Exchequer to the Queen.

Mr. Burton to send my Lord an account of his proceedings as
Receiver of the revenues of the Savoy Hospital. Ibid., p. 254.

eodem die,afternoon.

Present: ut supra.

The Customs Commissioners are called in. Their papers are read
and minutes [are endorsed] upon them.

My Lord Treasurer tells them that since his order of Saturday's
date (pursuant to a letter from the Earl of Nottingham) not to suffer
any of the [prize] goods on board the Fleet with Admiral Rooke or
any of the Transport ships belonging to it to be brought on shore till
the Queen's pleasure should be signified therein, that now by a letter
from Secretary Hedges to the Prizes Commissioners they are directed
to put the said goods under arrest on shipboard or wherever they
can be found and that the Custom House officers should be directed
to be aiding and assisting to the Prize officers in the execution
thereof: which my Lord [Treasurer hereby] desires them to order
accordingly and tells the [Customs] Commissioners that this seeming
to vary from her Majesty's letter signified by the Earl of Nottingham's
letter he, my Lord Treasurer, will speak to the said Earl to send
another letter hither to the Treasury to explain the former and will
thereupon sign a new order or warrant to the said Commissioners.

His Lordship likewise acquaints them that the ship Flamborough
is hourly expected to bring some advices from Admiral Rooke concerning the said plundered [or prize] goods and that 'tis probable
the same [ship] may bring a good many of the said goods and
that therefore the Commissioners should send an additional officer
or two to Spithead to wait her coming in to secure her cargo.

The Commissioners withdraw.

Mr. Culliford [is] called back. My Lord acquaints him there has
been a miscarriage in the Annuity Office; that he is bound in 500l.
[as a security] for Mr. Squibb; that the rest of Squibb's security
have discharged their bonds; that in regard Mr. Culliford is one
of the Queen's officers he should, in my Lord's opinion, be as
ready as anybody to comply in that particular. Mr. Culliford says
that he was bound for Squibb's faithful demeanour in Lord
Fitz Hardinge's office; that the money embezzled was not
received out of Lord Fitz Hardinge's Office and that his lordship
[Fitz Hardinge] will not be liable to a farthing of it: that
however he [Culliford] will go and wait on his lordship and
when he has spoken with him he will readily pay the 500l. if his
lordship thinks it reasonable.

Mr. Brewer and Mr. Painter are called in. My Lord tells Mr.
Painter that if it be necessary that a distinct officer be appointed
for paying the shares to the captors he [my Lord] thinks his [Painter's]
constitution not sufficient in regard it is [for him] to be an accounting
officer and [that his grant] should therefore be under the Great Seal.

Mr. Painter says he is ready to take out letters patent for the said
office.

Mr. Brewer says he cannot but insist upon it [the said work of
paying the captors' shares] as a part of his office already granted
him under the Great Seal, that he believes himself capable and is
very willing to perform the same.

My Lord orders them to attend again to-morrow afternoon.

Write to the Navy Commissioners to attend at the same time
with their opinion whether a distinct officer is absolutely necessary
for paying the said captors' shares or whether Mr. Brewer as Receiver
General of Prizes ought not to perform the same by virtue of his
patent. Treasury Minute Book XIII, pp. 254–5.

Oct. 20,forenoon.

Present: Lord Treasurer; Chancellor of the Exchequer.

The Navy Commissioners are called in. They say that in the
last war there were great complaints that the sailors had not their
shares [of prize money as captors] and that care ought to be taken
in distribution of their proportions. They think his Royal Highness
has pitched upon Mr. Painter as a person well qualified and they
think he is very capable of it by his experience in the Navy, but they
don't come to recommend. Nothing came out with more satisfaction
than the [Queen's] Declaration that every individual person should
have his right. And the declaration leads to some particular
persons and the advertisement goes further.

They incline rather to a salary than poundage. They think a
Commissioner of Prizes should always attend the pays of these
proportions (because they are numerous) to determine the rights
[of all parties concerned as captors] and to vouch the payments as
in the case of seamen's wages.

Mr. Brewer is called in and says it must be done by under clerks
and he can as well perform it as Mr. Painter. The captors don't
desire it and he sees no need of erecting a new office and that the
splitting his office is a reflection on him; he does not expect the
fourpences and will be answerable for his clerks. The misapplication
formerly is no argument now because then the order was to pay
to the Captains, now 'tis to pay to the captors and he don't pursue
his orders if he doth not pay to them individually.

Order for the issue of 50,000l. to the Navy Treasurer upon the
[tallies and] orders in Sir Thomas Littleton's hands: to be for wages.
Write to the Bank to advance the said sum in part of the 165,000l.
which the Directors (according to a late signification to my Lord
Treasurer) are willing to lend on the said tallies at 5 per cent, [the
said Littleton] depositing 3000l. tallies to make good the interest.
Write letters to this purpose.

The Excise Commissioners are called in. Their papers are read
and answers [are endorsed] on them.

Mr. Delarose is called in with his counsel; Mr. Phips and Mr.
Banister. His petition is read. The counsel insist he was a good
officer; that the revenue fell since; that he was promised 3d. in
the £ if his predecessor actually had an allowance though it might
not be 3d. in the £; that the Commissioners owned him a good
officer though they signed a report against him; that he impaired
his own fortune by 200l. in the service; that he hath not had equal
reward with other men who had 3d. in the £ and if the revenue be
farmed he'll give more than it now makes.

The Excise Commissioners deny all these facts; he compares
2s. 6d. per barrel with greater Duties; there is no instance of 3d.
in the £ allowed to any collector; his predecessor's incidents for 6
years came to 177l. 1s. 0d.; his incidents came to 302l. 18s. 1d.;
that Mr. Delarose never looked into the charging part and they
cannot find any direction to restore him though he shows a minute
of his own making as they think.

My Lord thinks his petition groundless. Ibid., p. 256.

Oct. 21,forenoon.

Present: ut supra.

[Write] to Mr. Whitfield to be here in the afternoon.

Auditor Bridges and Mr. Moody are called in.

The Auditors, the Navy Commissioners and Mr. Madocks are to
attend about Sir Edw. Seymour's last account on Monday afternoon
next.

Write to my Lord Halifax and the Attorney General to be here
on Monday morning.

The Attorney General comes in.

Sir Thomas Frankland, and Sir Robert Cotton are called in with
Mr. Tutchin and Mr. Castleton.

Sir Robert Cotton says that they heard Mr. Tutchin upon his
articles against Mr. Castleton and appointed a day to hear Castleton's
defence but then Mr. Tutchin did not appear.

Sir Thomas [Frankland] says the same.

Mr. Tutchin says his witnesses are not here but he'll undertake to
bring them on Tuesday next at 4 o'clock.

All parties are to attend again at that time.

Write to Mr. Blathwait to be here on Friday morning about the
pay of the Marines. Mr. Whitfield will be here then. Ibid.

Oct. 23,forenoon.

Present: Lord Treasurer; Chancellor of the Exchequer.

[The draft] letter to the Bank to advance 115,000l. was read and
approved. Likewise the [draft] letter to the Navy Board to apply
same. Likewise the letter to Sir Thomas Littleton concerning same.

[The draft letter of direction to the Exchequer] for 750l. to the
Earl of Nottingham for secret service and for 500l. to Sir Charles
Hedges for same was read and approved.

Direct that the order for Mr. Cole, Consul at Algiers, be paid out
of arrears [of Civil List moneys accrued] before 8 March last. Ibid.,
p. 258.

Oct. 26,forenoon.

Present: ut supra.

Write to Mr. Painter to be here in the afternoon.

[Order for] 150l. to the Earl of Westmorland out of Secret Service.

The Earl of Halifax, the Attorney General and Mr. Edwards are
called in.

[Write] to Sir Cha. Duncomb to be here at 9 to-morrow. Ibid.,
p. 259.

eodem die, afternoon.

Present: ut supra.

Sir Edward Seymour comes in with the Commissioners of the
Navy, Mr. Madocks, Auditor Bridges, and Mr. Moody.

Mr. Madocks says he will on Wednesday next deliver to the Navy
Commissioners the additional voluntary charge to Sir Edward
Seymour's last account and thereupon the Commissioners [say they]
will examine the same and make their objections, if they have any,
forthwith.

Mr. Dodington says he will tomorrow deliver to the Navy Commissioners the voluntary charge to Lord Orford's last account anno
1699 and thereupon the Commissioners [say they] will examine the
same and make any objections forthwith.

Mr. Moody is directed when he has any doubts upon Lord Orford's
account to send them to Mr. Copeland who will give answers for
Lord Orford.

Mr. Brewer and Mr. Painter are called in. Mr. Brewer says he
was willing to depute Mr. Painter to pay the shares [of prize money]
to the captors.

My Lord Treasurer offers that upon such deputation Mr. Painter
shall have 200l. a year and 40l. a year for a clerk.

Mr. Painter desires time and is given till Wednesday.

[Write] to the Customs Commissioners and the Commissioners of
Prizes to be here to-morrow afternoon about the plundered goods
from Cadiz. Treasury Minute Book XIII, p 259.

Oct. 27,forenoon.

Present: Lord Treasurer; Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Desire Sir John Thorold and Mr. Sanderson to be here to-morrow
week.

The Council of the Admiralty are to have each 1000l. a year and
Mr. Burchett and Mr. Clerk to have 800l. a year each during
pleasure. Prepare a privy seal.

The Earl of Ranelagh [is called in] and his memorial of the 20th
inst. [for money for the Forces] is read. The following payments to
him are thereupon ordered.

In part of 264,874l. 10s. 0d. [for Guards and
Garrisons anno 1702 as part of 352,000l. voted
Feb. 3 last]

£

s.

d.

for 3 weeks' subsistence to the Forces, to
Nov. 11 next

5767

14

3

for clearings of the additional men of 6
Regiments to June 24 last

1527

11

10

for clearings of the Troops in England to
Aug. 24 last

8656

3

3

for the Garrisons to the same time

2408

17

3½

for pay of the General Staff Officers from
April 25 to Aug. 24 last

2705

13

11½

for half a year's fire and candle for Garrisons

950

In part of 87,000l. [87,125l. 10s. 0d. for 5000
Marines anno 1732 as part of the above 352,000l.]
for 3 weeks' subsistence to Lord Lucas's
Regiment to Nov. 11 next

553

8

9

for their clearings to Aug. 24 last

1429

2

11

In part of 700,000l. [voted Jan. 27 last for the 40,000
men anno 1702]

for subsistence to the English Forces and for
pay to the Foreign Forces in Holland,
upon account

30000

54198

12

3

to the Office of Ordnance for land service [as
in part of 70,973l. 13s. 9d. voted Feb. 5 last
for the Ordnance Land service anno 1702]

20973

13

9

£75172

6

0

The above total is to be paid out of the 85,085l. 0s. 2½d. now
in the Exchequer of the overplus of the funds anno 1701.

Prepare letters for the issue of 2000l. and 3500l. to the Ordnance
out of the Four and a Half per cent. Duty, pursuant to the Queen's
directions. Ibid., p. 260.

eodem die, afternoon.

Present: ut supra.

The Governors of the Post Office are called in with Mr. Castleton
and Mr. Tutchin; the Attorney and Solicitor General being present.
The matter is put off till this day week. All parties take notice.

The Customs Commissioners are called in and the Commissioners
of Prizes. Upon considering the report of the former of yesterday's
date and the letters now produced by the latter from their officers
and upon discoursing the subject matter thereof it is agreed that
the plundered goods which shall be brought home in the Fleet shall
be put in small vessels, the hatches whereof are to be sealed up and
that the goods be so conveyed to Southampton and secured in
warehouses there till the Queen's pleasure be further known. Ibid.

Oct. 28.

Present: ut supra.

Mr. Thomas Browne having agreed to advance 30,000l. this day
upon tallies and orders for 32,000l. (part of those in the hands of
the Treasurer of the Navy and payable in course after the tallies
and orders for 279,000l. upon which the Bank has advanced or
agreed to advance money in the first place) which tallies and orders
are charged upon the Land Tax and Subsidies [1 Anne, c. 6], my Lord
Treasurer agrees that Mr. Browne shall have 5 per cent interest on his
said loan, sinking the interest as every 10,000l. shall come in course:
and that the tallies and orders for the said 32,000l. shall forthwith
be delivered to him, he giving a note that when the principal and
interest shall be fully repaid and satisfied the overplus remaining
upon the said tallies and orders (if any such overplus be) shall be
re-delivered to the Treasurer of the Navy for the Queen's use.

Out of the abovesaid 30,000l. my Lord directs issues as follows viz.

£

s.

d.

for interest, bills of exchange and Contingencies of the Navy: to be placed to the
head of Wear and Tear

5000

for the growing charge of the Sick and
Wounded and prisoners of war: to be
placed three-fifths to the head of Wages
and two-fifths to the head of Victuals

8018

for 2 months' freight to the transport ships
employed in the Expedition to Cadiz;
according to contract: and to be paid over
for that purpose in a gross sum to Samuel
Atkinson and Nicholas Roop by way of imprest

14325

13

0

to be reserved for such uses of the Navy as the
Lord Treasurer shall direct

2656

7

0

£30000

Prepare all necessary orders upon the said minute.

The letter [of direction to the Exchequer for the issue] of 3950l.
for Ladies of the Bedchamber &c. is [read and] approved.

Likewise the letter [of direction] for 5500l. [of which 3500l.
for gunners and ammunition] for Barbados and [2000l. for stores
of war] for the Leeward Islands.

Likewise the letter [to the Master of the Great Wardrobe] for
[providing] [the Queen's Banner, Helmet and Sword [for her
Majesty as Sovereign of the Garter for the Royal Chapel at
Windsor].

Order for 4000l. to be issued to Sir B. Bathurst, Cofferer of the
Household: out of Civil List moneys grown due since March 8 last:
to be upon account for the expense of the Household pursuant to
an Establishment which is to take place [and be payable] from
July 1 last.

Write to the Agents for Taxes to be here on Friday morning concerning Mason's sureties.

Order for 128l. 18s. 0d. to be issued to the Office of the Works for
Mr. Wise for works done at Windsor from 9 March last to July 31
last: to be issued out of Civil List moneys accruing since March 8
last.

Mr. Painter is not willing to be Mr. Brewer's deputy.

Mr. Brewer is admonished to be very careful and to present to
my Lords a scheme of his management. Treasury Minute Book XIII,
pp. 261–2.

Oct. 28,afternoon.

Present: Lord Treasurer.

Petitions are read and answered [and the answers are endorsed
upon them].

Prepare a sign manual for the [House of Commons] Speaker's
equipage money.

[Write] to the Auditors of Imprests and Auditor Shales to attend
this day week. Ibid., p. 262.

Oct. 30,forenoon.

Present: Lord Treasurer; Chancellor of the Exchequer.

The Agents for Taxes are called in.

The Tellers [of the Receipt] are called in about the money
embezzled by under clerks. Sir Christopher Musgrave says that he
has paid no annuities and has but one [letter of] direction [made
out or drawn] upon him which is not called for, and hopes he is
not liable [for the loss by such embezzlements] but for what he
receives or pays.

Mr. Vernon says he is but newly come in and that he has continued
one of the under clerks upon security.

[My Lord orders that] every one of the [four] Tellers should state
his particular case in relation to the Annuity Office and present the
same to my Lord. Write to them all.